Effects of prenatal exposure to 5-fluoro-2'-deoxyuridine on developing central nervous system and reproductive function in male offspring of mice

Teratogenesis Carcinogenesis and Mutagenesis

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 73-92

  Nagao, Tetsuji ^a   Kuwagata, Makiko ^a   Saito, Yoshiaki ^a  

^a HATANO RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Central nervous system; Diencephalon; Dilatation of ventricles; FrdU; Prenatal exposure; Pyknosis; Reproductive dysfunction; Telencephalon

Indexed keywords

FLOXURIDINE;

ADULTHOOD; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FETUS DEATH; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; MOUSE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY;

ABNORMALITIES, DRUG-INDUCED; ANIMALS; ANTIMETABOLITES, ANTINEOPLASTIC; BRAIN; DNA FRAGMENTATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EPIDIDYMIS; FEMALE; FETUS; FLOXURIDINE; GROWTH; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCTION; TESTIS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0031660281     PISSN: 02703211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6866(1998)18:2<73::AID-TCM3>3.0.CO;2-A     Document Type: Article

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